Purses

• Treasure

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.

• Money
• Brass

Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,

• Power
• War

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.